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[–]MarkTwainiac 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

One more point, which is largely overlooked in this conversation, is that if a man takes testosterone blockers, he has no interest in perving on anyone. But I get the feeling that a lot of these TRA's dont take them.

This is definitely not true! Attempts to "chemically castrate" sex criminals by putting them on testosterone blockers (as well as cross-sex hormones) have not been successful. Blocking T does not take away sex offenders or predatory perverts' desires to commit sex abuse and/or perv on others. If it did, there'd be no issue about what to do with convicted serial sex offenders once they have served their prison terms - but in fact, that is a big issue in jurisprudence today.

Criminality, sociopathy, sexual deviance and other forms of psychopathology and mental illnesses are not cured by adjusting hormone levels, or by doing surgeries on the genitals. Suggesting that hormones are the principal or sole determinants and drivers of personality and behavior is trans rhetoric and naive wishful thinking; it does not comport with reality.

Some male predators and pervs might find that T blockers reduce the frequency and intensity of their dangerous thoughts and urges somewhat, but T blockers certainly do not eliminate those thoughts or urges. T blockers aren't a magic pill that -presto - turn a sick mindset into a healthy one.

Some creepy sex-obsessed, dangerous men on T blockers and cross-sex hormones might become a smidge less preoccupied with their creepy, sex-obsessed, dangerous thoughts of "getting some," but they remain plenty creepy, sex-obsessed and dangerous all the same - and plenty capable of being prurient, prying, invasive, sneaky, devious, aggressive, intimidating and menacing. As all the lovely TRA TIMs on social media prove by sending out threats of death, rape, dismemberment to women on the daily prove.

T blockers don't cause men who see female humans (and children) as objects to be used and abused as such men wish to suddenly start seeing us as humans. T blockers don't cause men who disrespect girls' and women's privacy, dignity and boundaries to suddenly start respecting them.

Also, T blockers do nothing to diminish a man's size, strength, bone density, speed or physical power.